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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerakSpielman" data-source="post: 1314502" data-attributes="member: 7464">I do not believe (there's that word again!) that, if there IS a universal moral compass, that we can ever determine what it is. There are lots of people who belive there is a universal moral compass, and few of these moral compasses agree with each other on every single point. In fact, each of these people assumes their version of the universal moral compass is correct and all the other ones are false. (In that one respect, their beliefs are identical.) If there were a hypothetical somebody with no moral-ethical code who is trying to determine what the absolute moral compass is, and he goes around talking to all these people, how is he supposed to decide which is correct? All of them seem to have equal validity. If only one of them is true, how does it stand out from the others? As I mentioned before, what if the one person who got it right died a long time ago and nobody would believe him? If nobody on this earth followed the universal moral compass, would we notice the difference? How do we know that is not the current situation?</blockquote>